• Reported to CEO • Supported day-to-day needs of Web Development Bootcamps and Professional Development programs • Product Development Research - Competitive Analysis, Student Needs Analysis, Product Development • Program Admissions - Conducted admissions Interviews and contributed to admissions decisions • Curriculum Design (course materials, exercises, solutions) - wrote and crafted the Mastering SQL for Developers course • Teaching Assistant for Mastering SQL for Developers course

Built Technologies | Sep 2015 - Feb 2020

Application Engineer

• Built out and deployed features across services architecture (Python) and legacy (PHP/JavaScript) monolith codebases. • Helped build an initial implementation of event streaming architecture within APIs of service-oriented architecture. • Built an application sandbox tool for business development to spin up/tear down test user accounts with ready-to-go sample data for demos. • Managed, guided and set coding standards for the overseas development team in Ukraine. • Established custom testing framework for API workflows and trained all development teams on best practices • Led coding interviews and mentored newly on-boarded devs through pair programming & code reviews. • Advised product team on technical capabilities and contributed recommendations to the planning and refinement of feature work.

iostudio | Apr 2014 - Sep 2015

Junior Back End Developer

As part of the Iostudio development team I contributed to the development of robust web applications for the US Chamber of Commerce. Technologies that I utilized were the Symfony Framework (PHP), OAuth, Solr, Doctrine and MySql.

Carousel Interactive | Jan 2008 - Aug 2015

Freelance Web Developer

• Providing Wordpress customizations, graphic design and social media marketing services for music industry and small business clientele • Manage and direct all phases of project-based efforts while managing, motivating and guiding clients through development process. • Utilize Facebook, Twitter, Mail Chimp, YouTube & Google’s API for website widgets • Have built over 45 websites to-date.

Graham Artist Management | Mar 2009 - Aug 2013

Artist Manager | Web Designer | IT Support

• Planned and executed the development of all artist websites using Wordpress • Collaborated with artists and their record labels in web development process • Troubleshooted email/server issues using Cpanel and diagnosed and solved PC or Mac user problems over long-distance for parent company located in Texas • Personally managed the growth of social media followers from zero to 14,800 through a marketing mix of Facebook advertising, special promotions and branding • Managed business on behalf of artists between their attorneys for legal advice and contractual negotiations, business mangers for financial reporting and general business operations, agents for show bookings and tour planning, publicists for the promotion of new music to national media outlets and record labels for music marketing and release promotions. • Over a 4 year period managed the careers of 10 songwriters and 5 artist/ groups • Negotiated contracts, planned touring logistics, created budgets, scheduled press, and managed online marketing • Lead the creative branding of artists by overseeing all photo/video shoot productions

Country Thunder Records | Mar 2008 - Mar 2009

Interactive Manager

• Developed all artist websites with Wordpress • Personally managed the growth of social media friends from zero to 3,100 through a marketing mix of special promotions and relationship management. • Collaborated with radio promotions team in creating marketing collateral and purchasing trade advertisement placement • Designed and implemented a national video contest promotion • Planned and coordinated an artist showcase for Country Radio Seminar

Westcoast Broadcasting, Inc. | Jul 2006 - Feb 2008

Marketing Coordinator

• Worked as web designer and collaborated with external web programmers to build two radio station websites • Proposed to senior management the need for a sales department website as a new tool for the sales department. • Built and launched the sales department website that was in use for 10 years later. • Imagined and created new online sponsorship opportunities for the sales team • Provided IT support for sales department • Assisted in the concept design, planning and execution of the Jugfest Music Festival • Performed voiceovers for commercials and station imaging

My Education

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Executive MBA, Business Strategy & Startup Entrepreneurship · (JuneQuantic School of Business and Technology | 2021

Software EngineeringNashville Software School | 2014

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Emphasis MarketingSan Diego State University-California State University | 2006

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